The conductor, harpsichordist and organist Andrea Marcon is one of the most renowned specialists working today in the fields of early and Classical music. In 1997 he founded the Venice Baroque Orchestra, one of the world’s leading Baroque ensembles.
Since 2009 he has been artistic director of the La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel, appearing with them in highly acclaimed opera and ballet productions at Theater Basel, and on international concert tours with artists such as Magdalena Kožená and Patricia Petibon. A recording of Bach’s Mass in B minor was released to mark the orchestra‘s 25th anniversary in the 2024/25 season.
He appears in prestigious concert venues worldwide, collaborating with leading singers and instrumental soloists. He works regularly at the Frankfurt Opera and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and in 2023 made his debut at La Scala, Milan.
He has worked with orchestras including the Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, the Bamberg Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Mozarteum Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg.
His acclaimed performances include Benedetto Marcello’s Il trionfo della Poesia, e della Musica, Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso, L’Atenaide, Tito Manlio and Juditha triumphans, Cavalli’s La Calisto and Giasone, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Handel’s Messiah, Ariodante and Alcina, early Rossini operas and numerous symphonies from Haydn to Schubert.
His wide-ranging repertory is documented on more than seventy-five recordings. He has received the German Record Critics’ Award four times as an organist and harpsichordist, and as a conductor has been nominated twice for a Grammy, and won the Diapason d’Or, the Choc de Classica, the Vivaldi Award of the Cini Foundation, the ECHO Klassik, the Edison Classical Award and the International Classical Music Award. In 2021 the Handel Festival awarded him the Handel Prize of the City of Halle.
Andrea Marcon was born in Treviso and studied at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with teachers including Jordi Savall and Ton Koopman. He is currently professor of harpsichord, organ and interpretation at his alma mater.
